Sue Nelson examines the NHS National IT Programme. The aim of this ambitious project, begun in 2002, is to deliver better and safer care to patients while fundamentally changing the way the health service is run. Sue examines the successes and failures of an undertaking which has received much media attention.

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Sue Nelson examines the progress of the NHS National IT Programme over the past year.Sue Nelson examines the progress of the NHS National IT Programme over the past year. She reports from the British Medical Association's annual general meeting in Edinburgh and hears from Gordon Hextall, the chief operating officer for NHS Connecting for Health.